Edward Snowden inspires surveillance video game

NSA former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden talks as he participates via video link from Russia (above) to a parliamentary hearing at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, northeastern France on June 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has inspired a new video game that aims to expose the “suffocating privacy invasions” carried out by intelligence agencies. Need to Know, developed by Australia-based Monomyth Games, requires players to climb the ranks of the Department of Liberty, a government agency based on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), whose mass surveillance practises…